About my photography

As a creative outlet, photography has been my major passion for the last decade. After visiting Canada in 1996 and
having my first face to face encounter with a grizzly bear I was officially hooked. These days I spend my
vacation time road tripping around the National Park system of North America, capturing the wild experiences it
offers.

Below are a selection of recent favourites from my rambles around the continent.

Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks

"Like no other place on earth." That is how Yellowstone has been popularly described over the last century since
becoming the worlds first National Park. The only remaining stronghold of true American wilderness, it is like
a window into the past when the Bison and Antelope roamed the plains. As Yellowstone is to wildlife, Grand Teton
(just to the south) is all about stunning landscape architecure. Nature at it's most inspiring.

The Desert Southwest

I feel pulled back to the desert each fall, when the temperatures cool and the light comes alive.
Southeastern Utah and Northern Arizona contains more parks with more mindblowing scenery than any
other location I've visited. After reading Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitaire", you can't help but
want to camp out in the wilderness here to see the sun burning highlights into the fiery landscape.

The Canadian Rockies

My first visit to the Rockies came from living in Lake Louise in 96. The drive from Banff to Jasper has to be
one of the worlds most beautiful stretches of road, passing along the spine of the continent pas enumerable
bright blue glacial lakes. This area was the biggest reason I moved to Canada.

Yosemite National Park

Nothing can prepare you for the experience of entering Yosemite Valley. My inital inspiration can via the
photography of Ansel Adams and the writings of Scottish environmentalist John Muir. Yosemite is home to
the largest type of tree in the world, the Giant Sequoia, and some of the most breathtaking granite valley
and mountain scenery on the planet. The photos in my gallery come from Yosemite and it's surrounding areas
(Mono Lake, Sequioa and Kings Canyon).

Marmots

"Within a few hundred yards I would see several more of what constitutes 25% of all wild Vancouver Island Marmots.

I've just hiked with a researcher into the mountains near Nanaimo, into an ecological reserve inaccessibleto the
public. When I consider that I'm (as far as I know) the first photographer allowed access, I feel privileged and excited."